G. Farbenindustrie AG ("dye industry syndicate"), commonly known as IG Farben, was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. It was formed...
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The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial, was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities...
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The I.G. Farben Building – also known as the Poelzig Building and the Abrams Building, formerly informally called The Pentagon of Europe – is a building...
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Hoechst AG (category IG Farben)
co-founders of IG Farben, an advocacy group of Germany's chemicals industry to gain industrial power during and after World War I. In 1925, IG Farben turned from...
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chemical company I.G. Farben into an international nickel cartel alongside American, Canadian, and French companies. By the 1940s, I.G. Farben relied on slave...
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Bayer (category IG Farben)
needed] In 1925, Bayer merged with five other German companies to form IG Farben, creating the world's largest chemical and pharmaceutical company. The...
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BASF (category IG Farben)
other German chemical companies to become the chemicals conglomerate IG Farben. IG Farben would go on to play a major role in the economy of Nazi Germany....
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Farben (German: "color") may refer to: IG Farben - former German chemical industry conglomerate IG Farben Building - former corporate headquarters of...
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Auschwitz concentration camp (category IG Farben)
chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final...
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between IG Farben and American IG at the time of founding.: 241 First, Hermann Schmitz, who was the second after Carl Bosch in IG Farben's hierarchy...
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Otto Ambros (category IG Farben people)
Far East. From 1934, he worked at IG Farben, becoming head of their Schkopau plant in 1935. His division of IG Farben developed chemical weapons, including...
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crossers. In 1930, Degussa ceded 42.5 percent ownership of Degesch to IG Farben and 15 percent to Th. Goldschmidt AG, in exchange for the right to market...
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The following is a list of people who were formally indicted for committing war crimes or crimes against humanity on behalf of the Axis powers during World...
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Norbert Wollheim (section I.G. Farben claim)
against a company in Germany. In 1953, Frankfurt's Landgericht convicted IG Farben i.L. and ordered them to pay, at the first hearing, DM 10,000 in punitive...
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Agfa-Gevaert (category IG Farben)
several other German chemical companies to become chemicals giant IG Farben. IG Farben would go on to play major role in the economy of Nazi Germany. It...
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Hans Kühne (category IG Farben people)
February 1969) was a German chemist on the board of IG Farben and a defendant during the IG Farben Trial. The son of Julius and Elisabeth Kühne, Hans Kühne...
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Christian Schneider (category IG Farben people)
during the conflict. Schneider became Carl Krauch's assistant at the IG Farben plant in Leuna in 1919 and soon rose through the corporate ranks. He was...
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Monowitz concentration camp (category IG Farben)
January 1945. The SS established the camp in October 1942 at the behest of IG Farben executives to provide slave labor for their Buna Werke (Buna Works) industrial...
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Fritz ter Meer (category IG Farben people)
and war criminal. From 1925 to 1945 Fritz ter Meer was on the board of IG Farben AG. He was involved in the planning of Monowitz concentration camp, a...
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camera company, May 1943. The photo was entered into evidence at the IG Farben trial. The Serbenhalle of the Raxwerke. The hall, booty from Serbia, was...
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thousands were used by leading German corporations including Thyssen, Krupp, IG Farben, Bosch, Blaupunkt, Daimler-Benz, Demag, Henschel, Junkers, Messerschmitt...
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dominated by the IG Farben Building by architect Hans Poelzig, an example of the modernist New Objectivity style. The style for the IG Farben Building was...
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Fritz Gajewski (category IG Farben people)
(13 October 1885 – 2 December 1965) was a Nazi German businessman with IG Farben and Wehrwirtschaftsführer (war economy leader) during the Second World...
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developed in 1931 at BASF and Bayer, then part of chemical conglomerate IG Farben. The first commercial production began in Germany in 1935. The Buna-Werke...
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Carl Krauch (category IG Farben people)
industrialist and Nazi war criminal. He was an executive at BASF (later IG Farben); during World War II, he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was...
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Foreign Office. Also on trial were industrialists—in the Flick trial, the IG Farben trial, and the Krupp trial—for using forced labor, looting property from...
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Hermann Schmitz (category IG Farben people)
industrialist and Nazi war criminal. CEO of IG Farben from 1935 to 1945, he was sentenced to four years in prison in the IG Farben Trial. Schmitz was born in Essen...
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companies to form IG Farben. In 1930, the administration of the then fourth-largest company in the world was transferred to the new IG Farben Building in Frankfurt's...
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Georg von Schnitzler (category IG Farben people)
October 1884 – 24 May 1962) was a German nobleman, member of the board at IG Farben and a Nazi war criminal. Born into the family of briefadel, Georg was...
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books, including Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era (1987), a prize-winning study of the IG Farben corporation. He has been described as the...
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